Why I Support The League of the South

When I am asked why I devote so much time and effort spreading the word about The League of the South, I am often at a loss for words. "Where do I begin? There are too many reasons to list." was often my first response.

Apparently, some person or persons figured out where to begin. They sat down and made a list, as I found the following document on The Georgia League of the South Homepage. It covers most of the major points why I support The League of the South, so I wanted to make it available for you here.

Before you read that document, allow me to share some observations with you:

I have found that different items listed herein cause more concern than others with different people. While some find certain points highly important, and other points of minor importance - another person will feel that the reverse is true. But the one thing that I have seen that is most important is this: Everyone will agree that the basic premise is correct, and no one will dispute any of it's points. (Unless said point directly challenges a privilege they now enjoy, and are reluctant to give up personally - even when the good of the whole is considered.) Item #9 especially aggravates some - but face it: Discrimination is Discrimination, not matter if the target is male or female, black or white, whatever or whatever.

I myself put different weight to different points. But individual points are not the issue here. The issue is: There is a clear and documentable "Train of Abuses" against the States of the "Union" and the citizens of those States. That is enough to justify our call to action, and why I am so vigorous in my efforts to educate others about these facts. And it is why you, the taxpayer, the citizen living here in America, need to take heed and spread the truth of what our government has denied, kept hidden, and lied about for so many years.

If you take the time to really examine our American History in depth, and look beyond the New England published textbooks and try to get "both sides of the story" to come up with your own conclusions, I know that you will discover what I have discovered: That the causes for the first "War Between the States" were not what we were taught in school, and that the SOUTH Was Right in seceding from the union. And when you examine the U.S. Constitution, you discover that it is plain that the Southern states Had The Right to secede, and the North was Wrong to force the Secessionist states back into the "Union." When the north wanted to put a righteous face on the evils that it had committed during the war, they claimed that they "fought the war to end Slavery." But this is not the truth. While individuals may have fought for this reason (members of the abolition movement) the majority of Yankee soldiers had no care whatsoever for the slaves (of any color) and the northern government's motivations were purely political and monetary.

Lest you think I'm here to support slavery, or white supremacy, I'll put that notion out of your mind right now. We live in a somewhat more enlightened time, and of course slavery is wrong, and of course no rational person wants to see slavery reinstated now. But it used to be a fact of life, and the fact is that northerners profited the most from the slave trade, and only after the "trade" became unprofitable did the north start to turn against it politically, whereas the South was still dependent upon it. Given time, the south would also have found it unprofitable (if not immoral) and the institution would have disappeared of its own accord. That is the nature of human behavior. But here's the truth you don't often hear about: Slavery existed in the NORTH for many years after the south was forced to surrender and the southern slaves were freed. You'll be hard pressed to find that fact in any New England printed textbook, but check the official records of the time... it's there.

And I will say this for the last time, and only because so many people have been "conditioned" to think that anyone that supports the South, or the Confederacy, or waives a rebel flag, or even sings "Dixie" is a bigot or a skinhead - that this must be said once and for all: The League of the South is not a racist organization, and its goals are not racially-oriented or bigoted. We of the League honor all our brothers and sisters of every race, and we especially take pride in the thousands of "minorities" (blacks and women included) that fought for the causes of the Confederacy. The League welcomes everyone who believes in the causes of State Sovereignty, Freedom, the Original Constitution, and States Rights - no matter if they be black or white, male or female, whatever or whatever. The League of the South has members of all races and ethnic groups, and I am proud to say that the League members I have known are as a group among the most non-bigoted and non-prejudiced people I've ever known.

Read the document that follows with an open mind. Don't automatically jump to any conclusions, even though these conclusions have been ingrained upon you from the first year you attended school. THINK for yourself. SEE THE TRUTH in the words. And after you have discovered the truth, follow your heart and do what is right.


But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
- - - Declaration of Independence

Train of Abuses against the Sovereign States of America

In 1776, America’s founding fathers stood up and resisted centralized tyranny. The state of affairs in the United States at present dwarfs the situation in which Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and Patrick Henry found themselves. Many during their time were willing to forego wealth, position, and even life itself in their pursuit of self-determination. Their willingness to do so led to the great freedom enjoyed in this nation. Unfortunately, the events of the past century and a quarter have produced a situation intolerable for everyone desiring liberty.

The League of the South proposes a return to the original foundation of American liberty, the U.S. Constitution. Failing this, we propose separation from the general government. To call for such action demands from us an explanation. The following grievances are some, but not all, of the reasons behind our proposition:

  1. The central government of the United States has refused to allow the sovereign states and the people thereof to exercise the right of self-rule under the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Thus our original Federal system is defunct.
  2. It has burdened the sovereign states with obligations to fund national laws that are often inimical to the interest of the states.
  3. It has caused to be recognized the legitimacy of the Fourteenth and Sixteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, both of which were adopted by illegitimate proceedings, to the great disadvantage of the sovereign states and the people thereof.
  4. It has in practice abolished the separation of powers and the system of checks and balances through the creation of an unaccountable national bureaucracy.
  5. Its judicial branch has proven itself consistently to be partial to the central government and therefore hurtful to the interests of the sovereign states.
  6. It has abridged the Second Amendment rights of the people of the sovereign states to keep and bear arms for the protection of life, liberty, and property.
  7. Its courts and Department of Education, supported by national teachers’ unions, have ruined our educational system by stripping local school districts of the right to run their own affairs.
  8. It has fostered and continues to support an Orwellian “political correctness” that inhibits free and open discussion of important issues and protects designated “victim groups,” which receive priority in the distribution of government largesse.
  9. It has sanctioned a policy of reverse discrimination in the name of affirmative action that favors the well-being of racial and ethnic minorities and females at the expense of merit.
  10. It has perverted the meaning of the First Amendment’s establishment clause by court rulings hostile to the Christian principles and practice upon which our Republic was founded.
  11. It has murdered scores of American citizens by reason of their having belonged to “cults” or for having ideas outside the cultural and social mainstream.
  12. It has used the genuine fear of crime and drugs to abridge the Constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens.
  13. It has undermined local law enforcement officer agencies’ efforts to fight real criminals and instead has criminalised the behavior of law-abiding citizens.
  14. It has forcibly collected income taxes on individuals and businesses within the sovereign states and used that revenue to bribe or coerce the states into compliance with unconstitutional national laws.
  15. It has supported through various federal agencies artistic projects extolling “alternative lifestyles” and perversions from homosexuality to pedophilia to attacks on Christian and Southern symbols and icons.
  16. Its Chief Magistrate, after having taken an oath in God’s name to “preserve, protect, and defend” the U.S. Constitution, has publicly advocated subverting certain provisions of the fundamental law in the name of public safety.
  17. Its Supreme Court has ruled that the states are inextricable bound to a perpetual union, secession from which is not allowed under any circumstances; thus the “right of revolution” of the sovereign states that Jefferson enunciated in the Declaration has been wrongfully denied.
  18. It has fostered and continues to support a New World Order that threatens to undermine U.S. national sovereignty.
  19. It has placed U.S. military personnel under foreign commanders at the behest of the United Nations.
  20. It has refused to protect its borders against illegal immigration and has sanctioned an immigration policy that threatens to destroy Western Christian culture by a large influx of non-Western, non-Christian peoples.
  21. It has fostered a system of one-party political rule (mainstream Democrat-Republican) by effectively preventing the rise of other parties on the national level.
  22. It has through its social, political, and economic policies destroyed the vitality of the middle class.
  23. It has allowed to accumulate a national debt approaching five trillion dollars, the interest on which now consumes an unconscionably large proportion of the annual budget.
  24. It has encouraged illiterate, ill-educated people to seek the franchise, thus providing fertile ground for political charlatans and demagogues.
  25. It has created a dependent welfare class that increasingly endangers the public safety and increasingly has been employed as agents provocateur to justify the enactment of certain unconstitutional laws by the central government against law-abiding citizens.

In 1789, the sovereign states ratified a document ensuring freedom from an abusive central government. Many states explicitly stated within their constitutions their right to secede if they thought their powers were being usurped. Within the Kentucky Resolution of 1798 this right was upheld.

The Kentucky Resolution of 1798

Resolved, That the several states composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government; but that by compact, under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States, and of amendments thereto, they constituted a general government for special purposes, delegated to that certain definite powers, reserving, each state to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force: That to this compact each state acceded as a state, and is an integral party, its co-states forming as to itself, the other party; That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases involving a compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and manner of redress.

The federal government has become the sole arbiter of its jurisdiction and powers. This was not its intended role. Being a creation of the several states, the federal government had powers only insofar as the states allowed. Therefore, the relationship between the states and the federal government was one of agency, with the federal government possessing the role of agent and the states the role of principal(s). Any power not specifically granted within the constitution (i.e. the coining of money, treaties with foreign powers, etc.) was reserved by the states. In other words, the states were the sovereigns who granted a part of their sovereignty to the general government.

The Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Whenever the federal government steps outside the bounds of its limited powers, each state has, according to the Kentucky Resolution, “an equal right to judge for itself... the mode and manner of redress.” This includes taking back the powers granted to the federal government (secession). To claim otherwise would be to contradict the original concept of our founding, that a government gains its moral right to exist from the consent of the governed.

The League of the South demands that the federal government cease its unconstitutional treatment of the states and their people. We also demand that the states and their respective legislatures begin reasserting their sovereignty. We ask you to join us in our stand.

This document acquired from: The Georgia League of the South Homepage

As you think about the "Train of Abuses" - imagine what this country must have been like before the federal government became the tyranny it is today. Our forefathers knew what true freedom meant. And in less than a century after gaining our freedom from the English monarchy, we lost it to power-hungry individuals within our own government.

You don't have to be from the South to appreciate what this document is saying. It applies to every citizen: whether you live in the north, south, east or west. Our government has failed us. The bloodiest war in the history of our country was fought because of that failure. The country has never recovered, and the situation keeps getting worse. It is time to put that to an end. But before that can happen, more people need to learn this truth. And it is up to YOU to help educate those who have never known the truth, or have simply forgotten it. Will your children, and grandchildren, revere your name because you took up the cause to help restore their freedoms? Or will they curse your name because you were "too comfortable with the way things are now" to do what you knew was right?

For the sake of your children, grandchildren, friends, neighbors, and everyone else sharing this country with you - do the right thing. If you are financially able to (even in these lean times of mortgage payments, fixed incomes and "wage slavery") your membership in the League of the South will make a great difference in helping spread these words of truth. But this document is not intended as a "recruitment flyer" - it's purpose is to wake a society made groggy from endless propaganda and revisionist history. It is also a call to action, for the time of waiting for the federal government to reform itself is over. Likewise, many of our state officials have been sucked into the corruption that is politics today. We must educate the voting public as to the truth of our current national situation, and encourage them to vote for leaders that understand State Sovereignty, and will uphold the spirit of the original constitution. And if the federal government should maintain it's track record of late, and fail to be reformed, then we must have support throughout the states so that we may once again exercise our constitutional right of secession, and form a new government (or governments) that will respect the will of the people.

So even if you cannot find yourself able to join The League of the South right now, then help do your part by spreading the truth to your friends, relatives, and neighbors. Email this document to a friend; Print out a copy for your relatives; Link it to your home page; and research more about the true history of the South and the American people, so you can be better informed to teach others. Your family, your ancestors, and your country is counting on you to do your part. Please don't fail.

Other recommended reading:

"The South was Right!" - by James Kennedy and Walter Kennedy
(available at amazon.com - among other sources).

www.DixieNet.com - DixieNet, the internet home of The League of the South has substantial resources available - much more than can be listed here...